Frida

[2002, Movie]

Frida: Review

Flamboyant director Julie Taymor's biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), whose bold and disturbing images of pain and wonder have grown in popularity since her death, is worthy but oddly pedestrian. Though occasionally enlivened by fanciful sequences suggesting the surreal power of Kahlo's vivid inner life, it's often mired in the mechanical accretion of incidents that blights most biographical films. Mexico City, 1922. High-school student Frida (Salma Hayek) ... read more

Frida: Cast & Details

Year: 2002
Rated R

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Cast
Salma Hayek: Frida Kahlo
Alfred Molina: Diego Rivera
Geoffrey Rush: Leon Trotsky
Ashley Judd: Tina Modotti
Antonio Banderas: David Alfaro Siqueiros
Edward Norton: Nelson Rockefeller

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